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LOT 2320
Medieval Bronze Pocket Mirror Case
CIRCA 15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (15.9 grams, 42 mm).
Comprising two recessed panels, each hinged at one edge, with punched triangular markings in curved and cross-shaped bands.
ProvenanceFound Romney Marsh area, Kent, 1990-2015.
Property of a Kent gentleman, a specialist medieval collector.
Cf. National Museum of Ireland, museum number E499:39.
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LOT 2320
Medieval Bronze Pocket Mirror Case
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£50 (EUR 58; USD 68) +BP*
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Medieval Lead 'Walsingham Shrine' Pilgrim's Holy Water Ampulla
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Opening Bid: £5
An amphora-shaped body with concentric triangles to the obverse, vertical hatching to the reverse, with two loop handles. 50.3 grams, 47.4 mm
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection. -
Medieval Bronze Straight and Beehive Thimble Collection
Circa 14th-17th century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Including annular, beehive and other types. 137 grams total, 16-21 mm
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Medieval Stained Glass Section of Woman About to be Martyred
Northern France, circa 1530 A.D.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
With a finely painted profile head of a young woman, her hair being roughly gripped by the large hand of a male executioner, mounted in a lead-came frame. 64 grams 10.5 cm
Tomkinson’s Stained Glass Ltd, 2011.
This meticulously painted fragment would originally have been part of a much larger scene detailing the life of a female martyr. Such narratives became popular in the later Middle Ages thanks to the widespread dissemination of collected accounts detailing the lives of saints, most famously the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.
